I grew up in Miami and what we called lightning bugs were a beetle with a pair of green glowing dots on the head: https://youtu.be/7MMleTEQoo4 https://youtu.be

I grew up in Miami and what we called lightning bugs were a beetle with a pair of green glowing dots on the head: https://youtu.be/7MMleTEQoo4 https://youtu.be/7MMleTEQoo4 I now live in NC where the bug is called a firefly and it has a single yellow glow near its tail and looks more like a fly.